When installing a game into a new prefix, Heroic should automatically install/update "corefonts", at least.

[azenyr]

Problem description

Some games, especially older ones, rely on system Windows fonts to render their UI correctly. A few games have IE/Edge integration to show stuff inside the game, like some MMORPGs to show their item shop. While text appears and is readable, the font is sometimes extremely ugly and jagged (missing fonts). The solution is to go into winetricks and install either the "corefonts" package, or "allfonts" (corefonts sometimes isn't enough).

Other launchers like Bottles do this automatically, maybe not for the corefonts package itself, but some fonts in general (arial, tahoma, times new roman, etc) when adding a new bottle/prefix.

Feature description

Heroic could auto install a few core windows fonts when adding a new prefix, to avoid fonts problems for new users who don't know how to fix it.

Alternatives

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Additional information

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[imLinguin]

The fonts situation should be pretty much solved when using Proton on Linux. We are slowly deprecating Wine-GE, in favor of UMU with Proton

[arielj]

I tested over 700 games (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qvM4HpYLrDCi69nejKF3NIbqxr3RJZV3qQM9mL0u2Y0/edit?gid=0#gid=0) and I only needed corefonts like... 2 or 3 times (and those are now automated).

I don't think installing corefonts is needed in general.